Ben Jacobs
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Including that he may have obstructed justice by hiding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.


A grand jury investigation in Georgia intensified this summer, and could be a greater legal threat to Trump than the Justice Department.


Liz Cheney’s loss made clear Trump’s GOP detractors have little electoral sway.


Cheney’s Wyoming loss was predictable. Her bigger fight, against Trumpism, is now fully underway.


One tiny state, one viciously divided party.


The Secret Service’s deleted text message scandal, explained.


Manafort claims that Trump’s lawyer had access to all emails sent on the former president’s 2016 campaign servers.

What is the point of the committee, and will Trump face any consequences based on what it finds?


The January 6 committee examined what Trump did as staff pleaded for him to intervene during the attack on the Capitol.


The latest hearing teed up what the committee members promise will be “a profound moment of reckoning” for America next week.